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COUNCIL CHAMBER,

19th July, 1960.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

(reg. [1]

Prohibited metals in food.

Antimony,

Cadmium.

COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD REGULATIONS, 1960.

Mercury.

Chromium.

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Clerk of Councils :

Regulatio

Explanatory Note,

(Thir Nore is not part of the regulations, but is intended

to indicate their general purport).

Under the existing law, the addition to food of certain dangerous metalls. compounds as colouring matter is prohibited, but there are no provisions regula ting their presence in food as a result of contamination. These regulations probibit endrely the presence of certain dangerous metals and their compounds, and prescribe safe maximum concentrations for certain other dangerous metal and their compounds the presence of which in small quantities is in practice unavoidable,

(Secretariat GR3/3231/60)

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS.

I.

Citation and comunencement

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2.

Interpretation

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Restriction og use of colouring matter other than permitted colouring

matter

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4.

Prohibition on the use of colouring matter in the case of certain

commodities

Restriction on sale or advertisement of colouring matter other than

permilled colouring matter

Offences and penalties

7.

Transitional provisions

Fire Schedule.

Permitted colouring matter.

Part I-Coal Tar Colours

Part 11-Other Colours

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Second Schedule. Labelling of colouring matter and colouring and flavouring

compounds

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